Arthur Allen Curme, Senior, was born at Richmond, Indiana, in 18.70, and his wife was born at Clarinda, Iowa, in 1871. Deciding upon a professional career, he went to Kansas to study law, and while there was married, and subsequently located at Cincinnati, Ohio, as bookkeeper for the Dupont Powder Company. In 1895 he returned to Richmond, Indiana, and for the following seventeen years was court reporter, but at the expiration of that period he and Charles H. Feltman and Harry C. Starr went into the retail shoe business at Richmond, also conducting a chain of stores from coast to coast, although they reside at Chicago. A brother of Arthur Allen Curme, Senior, Prof. George Oliver Curme, was reared at Richmond, Indiana, and has become a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, holding the chair of languages. He has edited numerous translations, and recently waa awarded a degree from the Univerity of Heidelberg, Germany, for a book in German of which he was author.

Arthur Allen Curme, Junior, was graduated from the Richmond High School in 1909, after which he had two years of work Purdue University. When he left the university he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was in the shoe business until 1914. Returning then to Richmond, he bought a farm nearby, and conducted it until 1924. In that year he and John Jackson bought an elevator at Hagerstown, and another at Boston, both in Indiana, and Mr. Curme had a half interest in Witt Station. After operating them until 1927 they formed a corporation known as the East Indiana Elevator Company, and at the same time bought the elevator and mill at Richmond, known as the Richmond Roller Mill that was established in 1854 by Charles Carpenter. It has passed through several changes in ownership, and was the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Mormon at the time of the purchase just mentioned. Mr. Curme is president and manager of the Richmond Milling Company; Harvey Bosworth is vice president; and Harold G. Coleman is secretary and treasurer. On November 1, 1928, the company began manufacturing commercial farm feeds, this branch being conducted as the Richmond Feed Milling Company. While the company sold the Hagerstown plant to John Jackson, it maintains its interest in the others.

In 1911 Mr. Curme was married to Miss Bertha L. Taylor, born in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1890, a daughter of Frank M. and Stella (Farlow) Taylor, he born in Wayne County; and granddaughter of Samuel and Jane (Barnes) Taylor, also of Wayne County; and of Omar and Eliza (Railsback) Farlow. Mr. and Mrs. Curme have one daughter, Dorothy Jane, who was born in 1918, They are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Richmond, and Republicans in political faith. Mr. Curme is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to Kappa Sigma Greek letter college fraternity. Mrs. Curme is a member of Forest Hill Country Club, the Woman’s Club and the Garden Club, and is very popular in all of these organizations.

It has been the, practice of Mr. Curme to live up to high principles, to be open and hon in all his dealings, contending that economical, honorable living on the part of the individual is an excellent plan for advancing general interests. Few men are held in higher esteem in his neighborhood than he.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JOHN D. WRIGHT. The Wright name has been a prominent one in the commercial affairs of the City of Newcastle for forty-five years. The late John D. Wright was one of the Wright brothers who were associated as merchants until the death of John Wright, and since then Mrs. John Wright has taken his place in the business world and is now president of the Wright Grocery Company, one of the finest appointed retail establishments of the kind in Eastern Indiana.

John D. Wright was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858, son of Arthur Wellington and Harriet (Dunn) Wright. His parents were natives of Ireland and his father for many years conducted a dry goods store at Cincinnati. John D. Wright availed himself of the opportunities of the public schools in his native city and at an early age went to work in his father's store. He attended night schools and gained a technical knowledge of bookkeeping and other commercial branches. After the death of his father he was employed as bookkeeper in the dry goods store, and remained in Cincinnati until 1885, when he moved to Newcastle.

Here with his brother, Trevor Wright, he acquired a grocery business and was active in this partnership until his death on August 22, 1902. Mr. Wright was more than a successful business man. His public spirit identified him with all the progressive organizations in his community. He served for several years as city treasurer and was a member of the old volunteer fire department. He was a Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Wright married in 1880 Miss Cora Davis, who was also born at Cincinnati, daughter of Samuel W. and Mary (Binkley) Davis, her father a native of Wales and her mother of Alsace-Lorraine, France. After the death of Mr. Wright the grocery business was carried on with Trevor Wright as the manager until 1914, when Mrs. Wright bought Trevor's interest, and has since, with the aid of her children, carried on the business and has given it the reputation of being the finest and largest grocery in Newcastle. It is located at 1200 Broad Street, in the K. of P. Building. Mrs. Wright is a thorough business woman. She is active in the Presbyterian Church and several social organizations.

The oldest of her children is Harriet, Mrs. William Alexander, of Salida, Colorado. The son Arthur W. lives at home and is by profession an engineer. Trevor D., who is manager of the Wright Grocery, also lives with his mother. Miss Alma is in charge of the books of the grocery company. John Thompson Wright is a manufacturer of automobile fans at Indianapolis. Frank H., who is with the National Carbon Company at Lakewood, Ohio, married Mabel Barrow.

The sons Arthur and Frank were overseas during the World war. Frank had sixteen weeks of training at Annapolis before going overseas, and was given the rank of ensign and received his discharge as second lieutenant in the navy. Arthur was in Company F of the Twenty-third United States Engineers and was in France until the fall of 1919, being discharged with the rank of corporal. Arthur is a graduate of Purdue University, while Frank completed his education in Cornell University.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ED C. DAVIS, M. D., is one of the able members of the medical profession in Indiana and enjoys an excellent practice as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases at Muncie.

Doctor Davis was born in Washington County, Indiana, October 22, 1890, son of John H. and Henrietta (Green) Davis. His ancestors in the Davis family were members of the Friends or Quaker Church. His grandfather, Jackson Davis, came from Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Washington County, Indiana. Both he and his wife are buried in the Quaker Cemetery in that county. John H. Davis was born and reared in Washington County, had a public school education and devoted all his active lifetime to the occupation of farming and stock raising. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died in 1902 and both he and his wife are buried in the Quaker Church Cemetery. Henrietta Green, his wife, was born and reared in Washington County. She was a member of the Methodist Church. She died in February, 1929. Of the nine children of these parents the two oldest are deceased, Nellie, who passed away at the age or twenty-four, and Emma, who died in 1898, at the age of seventeen. The surviving children are: Charles G., a mechanical engineer who lives at Old Hickory, Tennessee; William G., a mechanic at Indianapolis; John H., a teacher at Salem, Indiana; Dr. Ed C., of Muncie; Clara, wife of Delbert Wyman, of Earl Park, Indiana; Mabel, wife of Albert Lloyd, of Salem; and Mrs. Mildred Colglazier, of Richmond, Indiana.

Dr. Ed C. Davis was reared on his father's farm, had the advantages of the public schools of Washington County, and after graduating from the high school at Salem entered Indiana University. He pursued the classical course, taking his A. B. degree in 1915, and continued in the Indiana University School of Medicine, graduating with the M. D. degree in 1919. He was an interne in the City Hospital at Indianapolis. Doctor Davis for three years practiced at Albany, Indiana, and then spent a year in further preparation and specialization in the City Hospital at Indianapolis. In 1925 he removed to Muncie and has since had his offices in the Plaza Building. He has the special equipment and training for expert work as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist.

Doctor Davis is a member of the Delaware and Blackford County Medical Society, the Muncie Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association and the Indiana Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Society. He takes an interest in fraternal matters, being affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 171, A. F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. He is a Republican and a member of the Grace Episcopal Church.

Doctor Davis resides at 1423 East Main Street, Muncie. He married at Salem, Indiana, July 12, 1921, Miss Nell Reyman, of Salem, daughter of Joseph M. and Sarah (Berton) Reyman. Her father for many years was a well-to-do farmer and stock raiser, has now retired, but still retains his farm holdings. Doctor and Mrs. Davis have two children, Richard R., born in 1922, and Barbara Jane, born in 1925. Richard is attending the public schools at Muncie.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

HENRY WATTERSON HARRISON is a Doctor of Dental Surgery, one of the able representatives of his profession at Anderson. He has practiced dentistry for over thirty years, at first in his native State of Kentucky and in two other Indiana localities prior to his location at Anderson.

Doctor Harrison was born at Carrollton in Carroll County, Kentucky, son of Richard Franklin Harrison and grandson of Benjamin Harrison. Benjamin Harrison was a native of Virginia, but lived most of his life in Carroll County, Kentucky. He was a cousin of William Henry Harrison, and several times traveled on horseback to visit that famous soldier and statesman.

Richard Franklin Harrison was born in Carroll County, Kentucky, in 1835. He was well educated, but did not adopt a profession at the beginning of his career. Later he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and had qualified for practice before the war broke out between the states. He entered the Confederate army as a soldier under the command of General Basil Duke, was promoted to the rank of major, and saw a great deal of arduous service for the southern cause. He suffered the privations which were common to the soldiers of the South and at one time lived forty days on parched corn. While in Tennessee he was captured by the Union army and was taken to the officers' prison on Johnson Island in Lake Erie, where he was confined four months. After being released he rejoined his command and continued in the service until the end of the war.

After the war he used his talents to build up a law practice and was soon elected county clerk of Carroll County and by reelection was kept in that office twenty-eight consecutive years. Later he retired from all activities and died at the age of sixty-three.

Richard Franklin Harrison married Catherine Gibson, who was born near Buffalo, New York. She lived to be seventy-five years of age. Her seven children were named Smith B., Theodore L., Fannie B., Sallie, Noble Forrest, Henry Watterson and Catherine.

Henry Watterson Harrison was educated in the public schools of Carroll County, Kentucky. When he was seventeen years old he entered the Louisville College of Dentistry, continuing his studies there three years and finished his professional training in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at Philadelphia, where he was graduated in March, 1893. Doctor Harrison practiced at Carrollton, Kentucky but eventually decided to locate in the State of Indiana. For seven years he was a leading dentist at Rising Sun, then moved to Jeffersonville and in 1916 came to Anderson, where his skill has brought him a large and busy practice.

Doctor Harrison is a congenial and popular citizen of Anderson, has many social activities and has also taken a share in local politics. He is a Democrat and is now serving on the city board of safety. Fraternally he is affiliated with Fellowship Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Anderson Chapter No. 52, Royal. Arch Masons, Knight Templar Commandery No. 32, Anderson Council No. 69, R. and S. M., and is also a member of Banner Lodge No. 416, Knights of Pythias.

Doctor Harrison and wife are members of the Christian Church. He married, at the age of twenty-two, Miss Hattie O. Dailey, who was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, daughter of Oliver P. and Hannah J. Dailey. They have two sons, Hugh P. and Henry W. Hugh is an employee of the Central Indiana Gas Company. Henry has taken up the profession of his father and is practicing at Middletown.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

HOWARD H. BROWN, member of one of the oldest families of Madison County, the Browns having lived here for four generations, is in business at Anderson as a funeral director, proprietor of a well-appointed business and service located at 228 East Twelfth Street.

Mr. Brown was born at Anderson. His great. grandfather, Martin Brown, was a native of England, was reared there and when a young man came to the United States and settled in Indiana, securing a tract of land which he improved into a farm and on which he and his wife lived many happy and prosperous years, passing away at a good old age. Their son, John G. Brown, was a native of Indiana, was a farmer by occupation and during his later years lived retired in Anderson. He married Delora Seybert. She was born in Madison County. Her father, Harvey Seybert, came to Indiana from North Carolina. It was in the early pioneer days and the trip was made with wagons and teams, the men of the family walking beside the wagons and at night they camped at the road side. Harvey Seybert secured a tract of wild land, on which he started his pioneer improvements in making an Indiana home. He developed a farm, and this land is now included in the site of an airport at Anderson. Harvey Seybert married Martha Davies, and both of them lived to a good old age.

The father of Howard H. Brown was Clarence L. Brown, who was born at Anderson, grew up as a farmer, and it was that occupation that provided his chief life work. He was the father of two children, Howard H. and Delora. Delora is the wife of William Eckenberg.

Howard H. Brown was educated in the Lincoln Grammar School and Anderson High School and subsequently attended the Muncie Normal School. While he was at the normal he was enrolled in the Students Army Training Corps during the World war, being honorably discharged after the armistice. Mr. Brown in 1924 entered the Cincinnati College of Embalming, is a graduate of that institution, and his first business location as a funeral director was at Alexandria. In 1929 he moved to Anderson, and continues his business in that city.

Mr. Brown married, in 1918, Miss Iva Rathel, who was born in Madison County, daughter of Charles and Harriet Rathel. They have two children, Mary Lou and Beverly Jo. Mr. Brown is a member of the Christian Church, the Masonic fraternity, the Elks, Red Men, Fraternal Order of Eagles and is a member of the American Legion. He is now a representative of the First Ward in the Anderson City Council.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

RICHARD SEDGWICK. The career of the late Richard Sedgwick, of Richmond, up to the time when his health failed in 1894, was an active and varied one, during which he took part in a number of pursuits, in all of which he made a success. A Home Guard during the war between the states, when only thirteen years of age he later was a farmer and became the inventor, with his brother, of the first wire-weaving machine that was practical, and for years thereafter was engaged in the manufacture of this article. When illness caused his retirement from active business affairs he again took up farming, and was exceedingly prominent in the movements that made for civic betterment and advancement. From 1919 until his death, April 6, 1926, he lived in a beautiful residence at Richmond, where he is survived by his widow.

Mr. Sedgwick was born May 18, 1850, in Wayne County, Indiana, a son of John and Margaret (Smeltzer) Sedgwick. His father was a well-to-do Wayne County farmer, and the boyhood of Richard Sedgwick was passed on the home place, his education being acquired in the common schools and at the Friends Academy, a Quaker institution, at Richmond. In 1863, although he was only thirteen years of age, he was accepted as a member of the Home Guards for service during the war between the states, and when that struggle came to a close remained on the home farm and assisted his father. He spent the 1873 and 1874 with a party doing survey work in the western part of the State of Oregon, then returning to the home farm in Wayne County. Mr. Sedgwick and his brother Isham were natural mechanics, and after much experimental work invented, perfected and patented a wire-weaving machine, the first practical device of its kind ever made. This practically revolutionized the business of making wire fence, which had theretofore been laboriously performed by hand. The brothers started a factory at Richmond in 1878 and soon built up a large and prosperous business, with which Richard Sedgwick was identified until his retirement, because of ill health, in 1894, when he went to live quietly on his nine-acre plot named Sedgwick Place. Although he had retired, it must not be thought that Mr. Sedgwick cut himself off from connection with affairs. Indeed right up to the time of his final illness he was one of the most active and constructive men of the city, for the betterment and advancement of which he was a constant worker. He assisted in the organization of numerous factories, and was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank. He was prominent in securing the electric railway on the west side; served on many committees engaged in public enterprises, and with George H. Knollenberg founded the Young Men's Christian Association at Richmond, with which he continued to be connected all of his life, and to the building fund of which he made the first donation. He was an elder in Reid Memorial Church for thirty-five years and a generous contributor to all of its movements. Mr. Sedgwick was always deeply impressed with the value of land and owned two farms in Randolph County, this state, comprising 420 acres. In the spring of 1919 Mr. Sedgwick bought a resid6nce at 42 South Fourteenth Street, Richmond, which he had remodeled, and in which he made his home until his death. He was a Republican in his political views, but never asked for political office or public preferment.

On October 15, 1884, Mr. Sedgwick was united in marriage with Miss Marcia E. Sutton, who was born at Richmond, a daughter of David Sutton, and she died September 15, 1916, having borne four children: Deborah, the wife of Henry Patton, of Richmond, Virginia; Margaret, the wife of Roy Strickler, of Lancaster, Ohio; John Richard, of New York City; and Theodore, of Hagerstown, Indiana.

On October 12, 1915, Mr. Sedgwick married Mrs. Addie M. Bowman, who was born at Hagerstown, Indiana, daughter of Hannibal and Olive (Perry) Matthews, the former a native of Canandaigua, New York, and the latter of Northfield, Vermont. In young manhood Mr. Matthews removed from New York City to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was married to his first wife, and was an inventor of stoves and the owner of a stove and hardware store for many years. When an epidemic of cholera visited the city he moved to Hagerstown, Indiana, where he was a shipper of live stock and grain and became one of the prominent men of his community. After the death of his first wife he married her half-sister. Mrs. Sedgwick acquired her education in the public schools of Hagerstown, and November 27, 1884, was united in marriage with Edward E. Bowman, who was born at Hagerstown, a son of John and Martha (Mason) Bowman. To this union there were born two children: Edith M., the wife of Robert Hughes, of Cambridge City, Indiana; and Rush A., of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick had no children. Mrs. Sedgwick has been prominent in various enterprises at Richmond, where she is a member of the Woman's Club, the Garden Club and various church societies. She belongs also to the Young Women's Christian Association and to an auxiliary whose purpose is to equip the Young Men's Christian Association Building, and served as president of the auxiliary for some time.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

JAMES B. BROWN. While the demand for farm produce has steadily increased, agriculture is the oldest industry for tilling the soil and breeding and raising stock has occupied man from preistoric days. It has been, however, only within the past thirty years that farming has been conducted as a business, with the best of machinery and appliances, and, therefore, although the years are not so numerous, as history is written, since the late James B. Brown began farming, in 1882, to the present day, the methods have been revolutionized. In spite of the hard work and few implements of his day, this sturdy son of Indiana made progress, and when he died, in 1926, he left behind him a large and valuable estate, and at the same time was admitted to be one of the leading citizens of Wayne County.

Wayne County was his birthplace, and he came into the world in 1854. His parents, William and Ann (Wood) Brown, were farming people, he born in Ireland and she in Union County, Indiana, and after they were married they bought a farm in Wayne County, which continued their home until death claimed them. Pioneers of the county, they experienced the hardships incident to rural life at that time, but they had faith in the region, and believed that their calling was an honorable and profitable one. Their neighbors found in them helpful friends in times of need, and they were good church people, and tried to secure educational advantages for their children.

The common schools gave James B. Brown his education as far as books go, but he learned much from contact with others in his after life. He was residing in Union County, Indiana, at the time of his marriage, in 1882, to Miss Mary E. Colvin, a native of Union County, and a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca (Bennett) Colvin, he born in Scotland and she in Union County, Indiana. Mrs. Brown is a granddaughter of Robert Bennett, also born in Union County.

For eight years following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brown resided on a farm near Abbington, Indiana, and from that one moved to another in the vicinity of Philomath, Indiana. Six years later they bought 250 acres near Webster, and lived upon it until 1919, when they rented the farm, moved to Richmond, Indiana, and purchased the fine modern residence, at 32 North Twelfth Street, where Mrs. Brown still maintains her home, and where Mr. Brown passed away, May 17, 1926. In political faith Mr. Brown was a staunch Republican, but he was not a man to desire public honors, preferring at all times his home and family, his farming and stockraising to anything else. Therefore he is deeply missed by his family, who, although several years have passed since his death, mourn his demise, and remember his wise and honorable precepts. There were four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, namely: Richard and Walter, both of whom reside at Richmond; Metta Anna and Esther Frances, both of whom live with their widowed mother in the Brown home. All of the children are a credit to their parents and upbringing, and Mrs. Brown takes great comfort in them now that she has been bereft of her life companion.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

EVERETT MOFFITT has had an active part in the business life of Muncie for nearly forty years. For several years he was a prominent oil and gas operator while the Eastern Indiana field was still at a high mark of production. Mr. Moffitt is owner of the Moffitt real estate and insurance agency at Muncie, is vice president of the Mutual Home & Savings Association, and his name has been well known to the public in connection with business undertaking and in civic movements.

Mr. Moffitt was born at Thorntown, Indiana, July 23, 1864. The Moffitts were sturdy upholders of the Quaker faith, and were representatives of a great exodus of Friends who moved out from Western North Carolina to the Northwest in the early years of the last century. Mr. Moffitt's grandfather, David Moffitt, married Rachel Cox. Both were of well known families of Randolph County, North Carolina. David Moffitt was born February 4, 1785. In 1840 he started for the Northwest, driving with wagons and teams across the country. He first stopped for the winter at Carmel in Hamilton County, where there were a few settlers, and in the spring of 1841 proceeded to Thorntown in Boone County, where he engaged in farming, and was so occupied the rest of his life. He died May 24, 1854, and his wife and many other members of the family are buried in Sugar Plain Quaker Church Cemetery near Thorntown.

Joshua Moffitt, father of Everett Moffitt, was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, May 12, 1818. He grew up and attended school there, and was a young ma.n of twenty-two when he accompanied his parents to Indiana. In the vicinity of Thorntown he improved a farm. For years he made it a business to buy up tracts of unimproved land, clear off the timber, put the land into cultivation and improve a farm and then sell. He was president of the First National Bank of Thorntown and held that office many years. Joshua Moffitt died August 23, 1888, and is buried in the Friends Cemetery near Thorntown. He married Martha W. Hiatt, who was born at Milton, Indiana, February 17, 1830. She was a graduate of the Friends Boarding School, which later became Earlham College, at Richmond, and she taught school at Thorntown for several years before her marriage. She was a birthright Quaker and lived that faith all her life. She died September 17, 1880, and is buried in the Sugar Plain Cemetery. Her parents were Rev. Mordecai and Rhoda (Dix) Hiatt. Her father was a harness and saddle maker and for many years a clergy of the Friends Church. Joshua Moffitt and wife had six children: Alton, who died May 2, 1863, at the age of one year; Everett; Ole, who died in childhood; Florence, who died in 1898, at the age of thirty-one, wife of Frank A. Wild, of Thorntown; Mary Bertha, who died in 1902, at the age of thirty-one, wife of W. O. Graves, of Thorntown; and Adelbert, who died in childhood.

Everett Moffitt, only survivor of his parents’ children, was reared at Thorntown, attended grade school there and the Union High School at Westfield, completing his education in the Central Indiana Normal School at Danville. He left school to look after the farm property of his father, who was then in declining health. After his father's death he settled up the estate and for four years more operated the home farm. He was three years associated with the carriage and buggy manufacturing business of Oldendorf & Moffitt at Thorntown.

After disposing of most of his interests in that section of the state he became a resident of Muncie on July 28,1892. Mr. Moffitt is a licensed embalmer and engaged in the undertaking business, associated with S. L. Potter, in the firm of Potter & Moffitt, for over ten years. They subsequently added a furniture department. Mr. Moffitt in 1902 sold his interest to C. E. Whitehill and for a time accompanied his sister in search of health. After her death he returned to Muncie, and during the next five years gave practically all his attention and his capital to his oil and gas operations in the Eastern Indiana field.

Since 1907 Mr. Moffitt has been in the general insurance and real estate business. He conducts the Moffitt agency, with headquarters in the Wysor Building. A few years ago he resumed his former connections with undertaking and is now associated with George A. Piepho, in the firm of Moffitt & Piepho, funeral directors. He is vice president and director of the Mutual Home & Savings Association, is vice president and director of the Citizens Finance Corporation.

Mr. Moffitt is affiliated with Muncie Lodge No. 433 A. F. & A. M., Muncie Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Muncie Commandery, Knights Templar, the Scottish Rite bodies and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He has been a Mason since 1891. He is a charter and a life member of Muncie Lodge No. 245, B. P. O. Elks, and was exalted ruler of the Lodge in 1901. He also filled chairs in the Knights of Pythias and was formerly very active in the Improved Order of Red Men and was a charter member of the Rotary Club. He is a member of the State Real Estate and Insurance Boards. Mr. Moffitt is a Republican.

He married at Muncie, December 5, 1905, Miss Margaret Mueller, daughter of Peter and Julia A. (Huber) Mueller. Her parents are now deceased. Her father for many years conducted a tailoring and clothing business in Muncie. Mrs. Moffitt attended the public schools of Muncie and is completely devoted to her home and family. They have two sons, Robert H. and William E. Robert H. is a graduate of the Muncie High School, attended the Eastern Indiana Normal School, now the Ball State Teachers College, and his chief interest at present is aviation. William E. Moffitt is a graduate with the class of 1930 of the Muncie High School.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ALBERT U. DOUGHERTY has been long and actively identified with the bakery industry, in which his experience has been broad and varied, and from the modest enterprise of this order that he founded in the City of Muncie has been evolved the large and prosperous industry now conducted under the title of Dougherty Cake Products, Inc. He is treasurer of this corporation, his son Albert L., of whom individual mention is made in the sketch following, is president of the corporation, and another son, E. Arthur, is vice president.

Albert U. Dougherty was born, on the parental home farm in Johnson County, Indiana, April 30, 1868, and is a son of Adam and Margaret (Barlow) Dougherty. Adam Dougherty was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and initiated his pioneer experience in Indiana about the year 1846, he having represented this state as a soldier in the Mexican war. He became one of the pioneer exponents of farm industry in Johnson County, and there he continued to reside until his death, in 1904, when he was eighty-two years of age, his remains having been laid to rest beside those of his wife, in the cemetery at Rocklane, that county. The Dougherty family lineage is traced back to staunch Scotch-Irish stock, and the family has long been established in the United States, where representatives of the name have lived and wrought worthily and prominently in various states and communities, as one generation has followed another. Mrs. Margaret (Barlow) Dougherty passed her entire life in Johnson County, where her parents were early settlers, and she long preceded her husband to the life eternal, as her death occurred in 1875, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the eleven children three died in infancy and the others attained to adult age. Jacob, William and James are now deceased; Sarah is the widow of James Jones; Elvira and Hannah are deceased; Margaret is the wife of William McClain, of Johnson County; and Albert U., of this review, was tenth in order of birth of the eleven children.

Albert U. Dougherty's early experiences had to do with the activities of the old home farm, and his youthful educational discipline culminated in his attending the high school at Acton, Marion County. After his school days ended he continued his association with farm enterprise in his native county until he went to the City of Indianapolis and became driver of mules that were at that time utilized in propelling the street cars of the capital city. He was thus in the street-railway service six years, and during the ensuing four years he was there driver of a delivery wagon for the American Baking Company. He then established himself independently in the bakery business at Indianapolis, and he was thus engaged, on a small scale, about three years. The next two years found him employed by Bessire & Company, there engaged in the bakery-supply business, and in 1905 Mr. Dougherty engaged independently in the bakery business at Greenwood, Johnson County. Eighteen months later he sold this business, and during a similar period thereafter he was established in the bakery business at Newcastle. In 1908 he returned to Indianapolis and established the New Sanitary Cake Company, which engaged in the manufacturing of high-grade cake products. In 1919 he sold this business, and during the ensuing two and one- half years he was traveling as a salesman of bakers' machinery and equipment. He then, in 1922, came to Muncie and established himself in the bakery business on a modest scale, with special attention given to the making of high- grade cakes. The business was initiated in a small store at 252 Hoyt Avenue, and high quality and effective service caused the enterprise to so expand in scope and importance that in 1926 the business was incorporated under the present title of Dougherty Cake Products, Inc. In that year was erected the present modern plant of the corporation, and the corporation now retains an average corps of about 100 employes, while the wholesale trade of the concern extends throughout three- fourths of the Indiana State area. This well ordered corporation has made distinct contribution to the industrial and commercial prestige of Muncie.

Mr. Dougherty is a Republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the Christian Science Church. He is a valued member of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America.

In the City of Indianapolis, on the 19th of October, 1887, Mr. Dougherty was united in marriage to Miss Cora Shelby, a daughter of H. B. and Mary (Brizendine) Shelby, both of whom died in Indianapolis. Mr. Shelby was in earlier years a farmer and thereafter was in service with the Belt Railway of Indianapolis, in which connection he received, in an accident, the injuries that caused his death. Mrs. Dougherty was born and reared in Hancock County, this state. In her present home city she has been active in the affairs of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and she is affiliated with the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. E. Arthur, eldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty, is now vice president of Dougherty Cake Products, Inc. He is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He married Miss Frederika Keen, of Fort Wayne. Dillard, the second son, died at the age of two years. Edward P., who is now associated with the motion-picture business in Indianapolis, married Miss Isabel Davis, of that city, and they became the parents of two children, Edward and Joseph. The second marriage of Edward P. was with Mrs. Blanche Connelly, of Indianapolis, in which city they maintain their home. Albert L., youngest of his children, is president of Dougherty Cake Products, Inc., and is the subject of individual mention in the sketch following.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

ALBERT L. DOUGHERTY is one of the progressive young business men of the City of Muncie, where he is president of the Dougherty Cake Products, Inc., a concern that contributes definitely to the industrial and commercial precedence of this city, the judicial center of Delaware County. Of the inception and development of this well directed corporation adequate record is given preceding, in the personal sketch of Albert U. Dougherty, who is treasurer of the corporation and who was the founder of the business, he being the father of Albert L. Dougherty, president of the company, so that in this direct connection further data concerning the business and the family history are not demanded.

Albert L. Dougherty was born in the City of Indianapolis, June 20, 1898, and after having there profited by the advantages of the public schools, including the high school, he continued his studies in Wabash College, this state, and in the University of Wisconsin. After leaving the latter institution he became assistant manager of the Spink Arms Hotel in Indianapolis, a position that he retained about two and one-half years. He next gave about eighteen months of service as district salesman, in the southern states, for the Boncilla Laboratories, dealers in toilet goods. He then became associated with his father in business and assisted in the organizing and developing of the present Dougherty Cake Products corporation, of which he is the president. His vigorous executive policies have had much force in the upbuilding of the large and prosperous business now controlled by this important industrial and commercial concern, the trade of which extends through nearly all sections of Indiana, and into each of the adjacent states. In his home city Mr. Dougherty is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Dynamo Club, the Muncie Advertising Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Delaware Country Club. He is affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, and he perpetuates the more gracious associations of his overseas service in the World war by his affiliation with Post No. 19, American Legion, in his home city.

In 1917, within a short time after the nation's entrance into the World war, Mr. Dougherty volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the United States army. He was given preliminary training at Base Hospital Number Thirty-two, Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, where he was stationed three months, and with his unit he then embarked for France, where Base Hospital Number Thirty-two was placed in active service commission at Contrexville. There he continued his loyal and efficient service until April, 1919, when he made the home voyage, he having received his honorable discharge, at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, in May, 1919.

June 7, 1923, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dougherty to Miss Angeline Nixon Bates, daughter of William O. and Clara (Nixon) Bates, of Indianapolis. Mr. Bates achieved distinction as author, playwright and journalist, and, with the effective collaboration of his talented wife, he effected the founding of the Little Theater of Indianapolis, for the presentation of specially high-grade dramatic works. With this movement in the capital city he continued to be identified until his death, October 31, 1926. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Bates has continued her activities in the developing of the finer type of dramas, both in the middle states and in California, the while she continues to maintain her home in Indianapolis.

Mrs. Dougherty supplemented her course in high school at Indianapolis by there attending Butler University and also by studying in the University of Wisconsin and the School of the Theater in New York City. She is affiliated with the Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Psi Iota Psi sororities, is a member of the Art League of Muncie, and she and her husband hold membership in the Universalist Church in their home city. Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty have three children: Joan, Alson Bates and William Bates.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

LEWIS S. GRAY, undertaker and funeral director, for the past ten years has conducted a model establishment at 51 South Washington Street at Hagerstown.

He is a native of Indiana, born in Randolph County in 1892, son of Sherman and Ida (Cecil) Gray. His parents were born in the same county and his father for many years has been a carpenter and contractor at Farmland. Lewis S. Gray attended public schools only to the age of sixteen, after which he worked with his father on the farm. His apprenticeship in his profession began with three years of work with a funeral director at Winchester, Indiana, and during that time he attended the C. G. Askin Embalming School at Indianapolis. After completing his training he worked a year at Farmland, then took charge of the W. R. Jones Son undertaking establishment at Red Key, Indiana, and from there in October, 1919, moved to Hagerstown, where he established the business which he has since developed, giving careful attention to every phase of the service and has a complete funeral home with modern chapel.

Mr. Gray married, in 1911, Mabel Gable, who was born in Delaware County, Indiana, daughter of Edward and Nora (McAllister) Gable. They have a family of four children: Dolores, born August 22, 1912, Lewis Edward, born July 14, 1915, Leah Fern, born April 4, 1920, and Bettie Lou, born August 1, 1924. Mr. Gray and family attend the Christian Church. He is a Republican, is a member of the Masonic Order, Encampment and Rebekahs, the I. O. O. F., and he and his wife belong to the Eastern Star of the Masonic fraternity. He is a member also of the Modern Woodmen of America.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

WALTER LEROY MISENER is a physician and surgeon, a native of Indiana, and has had many interesting contacts with his profession outside the routine work of a busy doctor.

Doctor Misener, whose home is at Richmond, was born at Goshen, Indiana, May 26, 1878, son of Harvey Edgar and Valera (Sternberg) Misener. His father was born in Wabash County and his mother in Elkhart County, and both are now deceased. Mr. Misener attended public schools, took his pre-medical course in the North Manchester College, and is a graduate of the Physio Medical College of Indiana. For one year he practiced with Dr. C. B. Pendleton at Mechanicsburg in Henry County, and when Doctor Pendleton retired he carried on the practice there until 1912. His home has been at Richmond since 1912 and for eighteen months he was associated with Dr. Joseph M. Thurston, and since then alone. Doctor Misener has constantly been a student and has accepted all the opportunities to come in contact with prominent members of the profession and observe their work in leading clinics and hospitals. During 1913 he spent a summer in the University of Michigan in clinical surgery and laboratory diagnosis.

In September, 1917, he enlisted for service in the Army Medical Corps, and on April 10, 1918, was ordered to Camp Greenleaf, was also at Chickamauga Park and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and on May 30, 1918, went overseas and was on duty at Hospital No. 30 at LaRochelle, France, until April, 1919. He was honorably discharged May 15, 1919, with the rank of captain, and at once resumed his professional routine at Richmond. Doctor Misener spent the winter of 1921-22 in the Augustana Hospital at Chicago and the Post Graduate Hospital of that City, improving his surgical technique. On his return in 1922 he organized St. Luke's Hospital at Richmond and remained head of the institution until he closed it in February, 1928.

Doctor Misener married in June, 1991, Miss Daisy C. Summers, a native of Huntington County, Indiana, daughter of Frank and Susanna (Sprinkle) Summers. Doctor and Mrs. Misener have an adopted daughter, Margaret Irene, now Mrs. Frank D. Benn, of Lansing, Michigan, and mother of a son, David Walter.

Doctor Misener is a member of the board of trustees of Reid Memorial United Presbyterian Church at Richmond. He is a Republican, a Council degree Mason, a past monarch of the Masonic Grotto, member of the Eastern Star Chapter, a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a past sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, member of the B. P. O. Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a member of the Lions Club, Masonic Club, Elks Country Club, the Indiana and Wayne and Union County Medical Societies, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Association. Doctor Misener belongs to the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Officers Reserve Corps, and is a past president of the Sixth District of the Officers Reserve Corps Association.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 4
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931